A Quote by Charles R. Swindoll

Those who feed on rumors are small, suspicious souls. — © Charles R. Swindoll
Those who feed on rumors are small, suspicious souls.
Suffering raises up those souls that are truly great; it is only small souls that are made mean-spirited by it.
While helping hundreds of thousands of refugees, Red Cross volunteers undoubtedly heard stories of Nazi brutality and rumors of mass gassings and they noted those rumors and kept an eye out for any evidence of them, but they saw nothing to indicate that the rumors were true.
There have been rumors and rumors and rumors about my love life. That's the one area that I really like to hold close to my heart.
There are rumors, rumors, rumors. I'm always the last one to know about these things, literally.
Rumors have restarted that the Republican ticket will not be Bush-Cheney. But today those rumors were put to rest when Cheney said, 'No, I'm keeping him on the ticket.'
When an athlete has relegated the persistent rumors of cheating to the back room of the mind, he hasn't really forgotten them. And when he glances back to where rumors hunker in the darkness, he hopes with a savage heart that somehow, some day, those cheaters will be brought to justice.
Great souls are always loyally submissive, reverent to what is over them: only small mean souls are otherwise.
In the NBA, you're never immune to rumors and trade rumors and free agency stuff.
Don't forget this, too: Rumors aren't interested in the unsensational story; rumors don't care what's true.
Don't dive into the weeds of mock drafts and rumors, because that's all that they are. They're just rumors.
'There may be some, perhaps - I don't know that there are - who abuse his kindness,' said Mr. Wickfield. 'Never be one of those, Trotwood, in anything. He is the least suspicious of mankind; and whether that's a merit, or whether it's a blemish, it deserves consideration in all dealings with the Doctor, great or small.
Prayerless souls are Christless souls, Christless souls are Graceless souls and Graceless souls shall soon be damned souls. See your peril, you that neglect altogether the blessed privilege of prayer! You are in the bonds of iniquity, you are in the gall of bitterness. God deliver you, for Hisname's sake!
When I'm awake, I don't want to go to sleep. I don't want the hassle of turning the light off, putting my head down and then all the thoughts. I don't want al those thoughts... thoughts feed on thoughts feed on thoughts feed on thoughts feed on thoughts and I'm: 'I don't want this'. I have to knock myself out to go to sleep.
There are none so low but they have their triumphs. Small successes suffice for small souls.
When I'm awake, I don't want to go to sleep. I don't want the hassle of turning the light off, putting my head down and then all the thoughts. I don't want all those thoughts... thoughts feed on thoughts feed on thoughts feed on thoughts feed on thoughts and I'm: 'I don't want this'. I have to knock myself out to go to sleep.
Small souls who seek power over others first destroy the faith those others might have in themselves.
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